Profile Detail
Barton Branstetter, MD
Professor of Radiology, Otolaryngology, and Biomedical InformaticsE-Mail:
Interest (in 3 to 10 words): Head and Neck Imaging
| Education | University of California, San Diego, MD, 1995 University of Pittsburgh, Radiology Residency (2000) and Fellowships in Neuroradiology, Head and Neck Radiology, and Imaging Informatics (2002) |
| University of California, Berkeley | |
| Medical / Graduate School | University of California, San Diego |
| Residency | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
| Clinical / Post-doctoral Fellowship | Combined Neuroradiology/ENT/Radiology Informatics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
| Current | Allegheny County Medical Society American College of Radiology American Medical Association American Roentgen Ray Society American Society of Neuroradiology American Society of Head and Neck Radiology Association of University Radiologists Pennsylvania Medical Association Pennsylvania Radiological Society Pittsburgh Roentgen Society Radiological Society of North America Society for Imaging Informatics |
| Specialties & Programs |
PET MR CT Radiology Informatics |
| Clinical Interest | head and neck radiology, PET/CT |
| Research Interest | PET/CT for head and neck malignancies Workflow Optimization Radiology Education |
| Selected Publications | Branstetter BF, Blodgett TM, Zimmer LA, Snyderman CH, Johnson JT, Raman S, Meltzer CC. Head and Neck Malignancy: Is PET/CT More Accurate than PET or CT Alone? Radiology. May 2005; 235(2):580-586. McDermott M, Branstetter BF, Escott EJ. Whats in your Mouth?: The CT Appearance of Comestible Intraoral Foreign Bodies. Am J Neuroradiol. 2008 Sept;29(8):1552-55. (Selected for Year Book of Diagnostic Radiology, 2009) Branstetter BF, Faix LE, Humphrey A, Schumann J. Preclinical Medical Student Training in Radiology: The Effect of Early Exposure. AJR Am J Roentgen. 2007 Jan; 188(1): W9-14. Branstetter BF, Humphrey A, Schumann J. The Long-Term Impact of Preclinical Education on Medical Students Opinions About Radiology. Acad Radiol. 2008 Oct;15(10):1331-9. (Winner of 2009 Stauffer Award for Best Education Paper in Academic Radiology) Bomeli SR, Branstetter BF, Ferguson BJ. Frequency of a Dental Source for Acute Maxillary Sinusitis. Laryngoscope 2009 Mar;119(3):580-4. Sheth S, Branstetter BF, Escott EJ. The Appearance of Normal Cranial Nerves on Steady-State Free-Procession (SSFP) Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Radiographics 2009 Aug; 29: 1045-55. (selected for Radiographics online CME) Sheu YR, Feder E, Balsim I, Levin VF, Bleicher AG, Branstetter BF. Optimizing Radiology Peer Review: A Mathematical Model for Selecting Future Cases Based on Prior Errors. J Am Coll Radiol. 2010 Jun;7(6):431-8. |
| Honors and Awards |
Fellow of the College of the Society for Imaging Informatics |
| PubMed Publications | See a listing of publications on PubMed, a service of the National Library of medicine. |
